German South-West Africa

German South-West Africa was a colony of the German Empire that existed from 1884 to 1915, located in present-day Namibia, southwestern Africa. The colony's capital was Windhuk (Windhoek), and the colony had 200,000 inhabitants in 1902 (2,595 Germans, 1,354 Afrikaners, and 452 British, plus African natives). In 1904, the German colonial authorities carried out a genocide against the natives after the Herero launched a failed uprising, and South-West Africa would remain under German control for ten more years. In 1915, South African troops invaded the colony during World War I, and the Germans surrendered after little resistance.